Friday, 22 May 2009

YES YES - YOU CAN



The story narrated below is a glaring example of what we can achieve in an helpless situation by surmoning up courage and upgrading our mental instinct to embark on doing what we might consider beyond our natural ability to overcome situations. The young boy in this report changed what should have become misfortune to fortune. Under the law he is not qualified to be behind the wheel but we can see how the letters of the law could kill but the spirit of the law upholds and justify any action that is taken to preserve the higher value in a situation like this. Trustin is an hero and he can always be trusted for his sharp instinct.

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A six-year-old boy grabbed the wheel of his family's pick-up truck and stopped it from crashing after his father became unconscious in the driver's seat. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Boy, 6, Takes Wheel After Dad Passes Out Enlarge photo Tustin Mains told police in North Platte, Nebraska, he was in the back seat with his three-year-old brother when their dad Phillip slumped over at the wheel.

He had been driving the family home from a restaurant when he suffered a low blood sugar attack and suddenly passed out.

Brave Tustin leapt into his father's lap to steer the Chevrolet Avalanche for several blocks, even turning around when he entered an area he did not recognise.

Although Mr Mains' foot had slipped off the accelerator, the vehicle continued to travel at 10-15mph with the boy at the wheel until it was spotted by police.

North Platte officer Roger Freeze ran up to the moving truck, reached through an open window and slipped the gearstick into neutral before rolling it into a park.

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Tustin later described how he saw his dad "fall asleep" and got scared, then was frightened again when the policeman appeared at the window.

But when Officer Freeze stopped the vehicle, the youngster was "just happy", he told The North Platte Telegraph.

Police Chief Martin Gutschenritter praised Tustin and said he was "a very special young man".

He added: "He was able to take quick action when his dad was incapacitated, and we are very proud of him."

Mr Mains said Tustin had done a good job of driving the truck, with the only damage being a minor scrape which happened when he brushed the side of a bridge.

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

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Tuesday, 19 May 2009

DARWIN RUBBISH DUMP REVISITED: By Rev. Babatunde Ezekiel Ajibola


WHAT A FUNNY WORLD OF MAN! The height of human foolishness cannot be better discribed than by what scientist are now claiming to be the missing link between man and the monkey. Not wanting to accept that there is a God behind creation, the level of human foolishness and ignorance is leading him into darkness. The bible in Psalm 49 says man that is called to honour and understand not is like the beast that is perishing. If the so called scientist want to believe that their great grand parents were monkeys, then they need to ask themselves again. "Are we in our right mind?" Everything that God created were created after their kind and there has not been any reasonable proof that a monkey or monkeys evolved to mankind. The report below is nothing but fallacy and should be sent to where it belongs. The rubbish dump. If man evolved from monkeys, where does the monkeys that we see today evolved from. Every creature have their life span and it is impossible for one creature to evolve to another as all that are created in creation are created in their kind. Trees are trees, birds are birds, lions are lions, water is water, the fishes in the seas and rivers are all of their kind. Nothing evolved they are created. God created them all in their kind. Science is suppose to improve man's ability to relate to his enviroment and not to deteoriorate to foolishness.

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Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution. Skip related content
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".

They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".

Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals," he said.

"This is the one that connects us directly with them.

"Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'.

"The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."

A team of the world's leading fossil experts, led by Professor Jorn Hurum, of Norway's National History Museum, have been secretly researching the 1ft 9in-tall young female monkey for the past two years.

And now it has been transported to New York under high security and unveiled to the world during the bicentenary of Darwin's birth.

Later this month, it will be exhibited for one day only at the Natural History Museum in London before being returned to Oslo.

Scientists say Ida - squashed to the thickness of a beer mat by the immense passage of time - is the most complete primate fossil ever found.

With her human-like nails instead of claws, and opposable big toes, she is placed at the very root of human evolution when early primates first developed features that would eventually develop into our own.

Another important discovery is the shape of the talus bone in her foot, which humans still have in their feet millions of lifetimes later.

Ida was unearthed by an amateur fossil-hunter some 25 years ago in Messel pit, an ancient crater lake near Frankfurt, Germany, famous for its fossils.

She was cleaned and set in polyester resin - and incredibly, was hung on a mystery German collector's wall for 20 years.

Sky News sources say the owner had no idea of the unique fossil's significance and simply admired it like a cherished Van Gogh or Picasso painting.

But in 2006, Ida came into the hands of private dealer Thomas Perner, who presented her to Prof Hurum at the annual Hamburg Fossil and Mineral Fair in Germany - a centre for the murky world of fossil-trading.

Prof Hurum said when he first saw the blueprint for evolution - the "most beautiful fossil worldwide" - he could not sleep for two days.

A home movie records the dramatic moment.

"This is really something that the world has never seen before, this is a unique specimen, totally unique," he says, clearly emotional.

He says he knew she should be saved for science rather than end up hidden from the world in a wealthy private collector's vault.

But the dealer's asking price was more than $1 million (£660,000) - ten times the amount even the rarest of fossils fetch on the black market.

Eventually, after six months of negotiations, he managed to raise the cash in Norway and brought Ida to Oslo.

Prof Hurum - who last summer dug up the fossil remains of a 50ft marine monster called Predator X from the permafrost on Svalbard, a Norwegian island close to the North Pole - then assembled a "dream team" of experts who worked in secret for two years.

They included palaeontologist Dr Jens Franzen, Dr Holly Smith, of the University of Michigan, and Philip Gingerich, president-elect of the US Paleontological Society.

Researchers could prove the fossil was genuine through X-rays, knowing it is impossible to fake the inner structure of a bone.

Through radiometric dating of Messel's volcanic rocks, they discovered Ida lived 47 million years ago in the Eocene period.

This was when tropical forests stretched right to the poles, and South America was still drifting and had yet to make contact with North America.

During that period, the first whales, horses, bats and monkeys emerged, and the early primates branched into two groups - one group lived on mainly as lemurs, and the second developed into monkeys, apes and humans.

The experts concluded Ida was not simply a lemur but a 'lemur monkey', displaying a mixture of both groups, and therefore putting her at the very branch of the human line.

"When Darwin published his On the Origin of Species in 1859, he said a lot about transitional species," said Prof Hurum

"...and he said that will never be found, a transitional species, and his whole theory will be wrong, so he would be really happy to live today when we publish Ida.

"This fossil is really a part of our history; this is part of our evolution, deep, deep back into the aeons of time, 47 million years ago.

"It's part of our evolution that's been hidden so far, it's been hidden because all the other specimens are so incomplete.

"They are so broken there's almost nothing to study and now this wonderful fossil appears and it makes the story so much easier to tell, so it's really a dream come true."

Up until now, the most famous fossil primate in the world has been Lucy, a 3.18-million-year-old hominid found in Ethiopia in 1974.

She was then our earliest known ancestor, and only 40% complete.

But at 95% complete, Ida was so well preserved in the mud at the bottom of the volcanic lake, there is even evidence of her fur shadow and remains of her last meal.

From this they concluded she was a leaf and fruit eater, and probably lived in the trees around the lake.

The absence of a bacculum (penis bone) confirmed she was female, and her milk teeth put her age at about nine-months-old - in maturity, equivalent to a six-year-old human child.

This was the same age as Prof Hurum's daughter Ida, and he named the fossil after her.

The study is being published and put online by the Public Library of Science, a leading academic journal with offices in Britain and the US.

Co-author of the scientific paper, Prof Gingerich, likens its importance to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian artefact found in 1799, which allowed us to decipher hieroglyphic writing.

One clue to Ida's fate - and her remarkable preservation as our oldest ancestor - was her badly fractured left wrist.

The team believes this stopped her from climbing and she had to emerge from the trees to drink water from the 250-metre-deep lake.

They think she was overcome by carbon dioxide gas from the crater, and sunk to the bottom where she was preserved in the mud as a time capsule - and a snapshot of evolution.

But amazingly this final piece of Darwin's jigsaw was almost lost to science when German authorities tried to turn Messel into a massive landfill rubbish dump.

Eventually, after campaigning by Dr Franzen, the plans were rejected and the fossil-rich lake was designated a World Heritage Site.

But no doubt there would have been one person happy for the missing link to have remained hidden.

When Darwin famously told the Bishop of Worcester's wife about his theory of evolution, she remarked: "Descended from the apes! My dear, let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known."

Now, it certainly is.

Thursday, 7 May 2009


Wednesday, 6 May 2009

THE MYSTERIES OF THE CLOUD: Rev Babatunde Ezekiel Ajibola


When we mention the word 'Cloud' it is an interesting phenomenon that triggers the immagination of every individual from their different emotional perspective of what the 'Cloud' that we all see in the sky mean to them. To kids the cloud in the sky could always appear mysterious because of the way they manourver across the sky. At sunset the reflection of the sun in the horizon is often a spectacular scenery of beautiful cloudy lamp in the sky that anyone would wish should remain in the sky permanently to illuminate the sky.
Cloud sometimes announced the advent of rain shower which is often accompanied by cool wind that brings serenity into the atmosphere. To the weather man or woman it is an everyday vocabulary. "It will be partly cloudy and we should be expecting some rain shower in the morning." We hear such statement like this every day on our television and radio broadcast.
To the Pilot and Flight Crews in airlines and those that travel constantly by air, going through layers of clouds in the sky is a daily routine that probably make them become used to the phenomenon known as cloud. Looking through the window of the aeroplane could bring any one travelling by air closer to this wonderful phenomenon . What is the mystery of the Cloud? we might ask. In creation as recorded in the bible the word cloud was mentioned by God for the first time in Gen:9:12-17 in a very significant occasion. "And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between you and me and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud."
After this, the word was mentioned not less than one hundred and sixty seven locations in the bible and all these instances are tied to the mysteries of God in creation. In delivering the Israelites from Egypt, God used the cloud as an instrument of deliverance. "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." Ex.14:19-20
"And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud."Ex.16:10
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I came unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever. And moses told the words of the people unto the LORD."Ex.19:9
In another mysterious incident as recorded in Mk.9:7. "And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him."
Also in Rev.10:1 an angel was seen with cloud around Him. "And I saw a mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun, as his feet as pillars of fire.
Furthermore in revealing the events of the last days it is recorded in Rev.14:14 as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ coming on a white cloud to harvest the world. "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and on his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
And he that that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."
Also in the book of Daniel 7:13-14 Christ referred to as the Son of man came in the cloud and received the authority of the kingdom from God. "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
There is something mysterious about the Cloud. We know that geaography reveals that rain came about as a result of precipitation that takes place in the cloud at a high altitude of the firmament. There seems to be four agents of nature that collaborate with the cloud to make it manifest its admirable qualities that attracts man's attention in creation. These agents are, light, the wind and water. If the cloud then is to be seen as means of transportation and communication both in the physical and in the spiritual. The water is the source of energy, the wind propells while light illuminates.
If man had not rejected God's source of acquisition of knowledge to enroll in satanic school from where man continuously acquire the knowledge of the good and evil, we probably would have acquired the righteousness of God by which we should have by now know how to convert the numerous advantages that exists in the usage of the clouds as means of transportation, communication and energy without possing threat to the enviroment as we have now. What do you think. We need to stop polluting the earth. The cloud can form the bedrock of new approach to satellite technology.

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Monday, 4 May 2009

FLYING WITHOUT WINGS










I have been away now for two months and on a busy schedule hence I have not been able to make new posting on this blog. However I am delighted to be back and to acquint my readers with what I have been up to. I left the United Kingdom for Nigeria and on my way back during the six hours flight I took time to take some pictures with the use of my handset camera. I had the advantage of sitting alone eith the sit next to me vacant in the economy class that in which I travelled. I guessed the lady that was to share the no 62 sit with me vanished after making a phone call. I suspected she was moved to a higher class by one of the cabin crew or someone in

the best position to do so. That put me at an advantage to move freely and satisfy myself in the things that I enjoyed doing. I took the advantage of available facilities to make the journey exciting. You know what we all think in our mind each time we fly. The possibility of a plane crash mixed with the thoughts of safe landing and happy reunion with love ones.

As a Christian I always believe that such misfortune as being involved in a plane crash should not be my portion. To get reassured, a constant recertation of "the Lord is my Shepherd" Psalm 23. gives me the confidence that I am secured. I washed the film titled "Australia" and couple of others. I took some photograph of the thick clouds below seizing the advantage of sitting by the window. I always sit by the windows each time I fly. I always demand for it and I always get it if they are still available. I dedicated the vacant seat by me to the Lord and I am very sure He was there sitting with me. The flight was smooth and the Air Bus aircraft crused well. Thank God. We landed at heathtrow airport at exactly 5.00pm. It was a sunny day and it was delightful flying on the Virgin Atlanti airline. Now that I am back my blogs are coming alive again. Follow me.